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- 1:57Speaker 4: So.
- 1:57Speaker 5: On this episode of the podcast again we're going to
- 1:59Speaker 5: be talking about marketing, short films are being used as
- 2:03Speaker 5: actual commercials, and so much more.
- 2:06Speaker 3: As we talk all.
- 2:07Speaker 5: About this wonderful, wonderful world of filmmaking and video, we
- 2:11Speaker 5: always talk about a lot of really cool projects as well.
- 2:14Speaker 3: With guests Daniel riez.
- 2:17Speaker 4: So, I started my career in consumer media startups, so
- 2:21Speaker 4: I've always been about creating tools for creatives and for
- 2:26Speaker 4: for all sorts of creatives from you know, better ways
- 2:29Speaker 4: to show beise photography online and video online and musicians
- 2:33Speaker 4: and stuff like that. And I came two weeks because
- 2:37Speaker 4: we saw that there's a huge user base of the
- 2:39Speaker 4: video creators that it didn't have the perfect tools for
- 2:44Speaker 4: their needs. And at Weeks we're all about empowering users,
- 2:47Speaker 4: and you know, different users have different needs. So we
- 2:50Speaker 4: came to this project in order to help video creators
- 2:54Speaker 4: grow their business. And knowing that's for a video creator,
- 2:58Speaker 4: their content is their business. It's all about you know,
- 3:00Speaker 4: better showcase, better distribution option, stuff like that.
- 3:05Speaker 5: So so Daniel, when you're you know, obviously you see
- 3:09Speaker 5: a ton of different things. You know, with your position,
- 3:12Speaker 5: you see a ton of different filmmakers, You see a
- 3:14Speaker 5: ton of different videos.
- 3:16Speaker 3: You know, what are you can you.
- 3:18Speaker 5: Think of any off the top of your head right
- 3:19Speaker 5: now that have just been like absolutely like astounding, And
- 3:22Speaker 5: you're you know, because you know, everything is digital now,
- 3:25Speaker 5: we have so many tools at our disposal, it's almost.
- 3:27Speaker 3: Overwhelming at times.
- 3:28Speaker 5: But you know, you know, and sometimes you see projects
- 3:32Speaker 5: and that just come out of left field and they're
- 3:34Speaker 5: just amazing. You know, have you run into any and
- 3:37Speaker 5: you could think of on the top of your head,
- 3:38Speaker 5: you know, during your course of wiks.
- 3:42Speaker 4: Wigs, website or in general just in general. So genera,
- 3:46Speaker 4: I think that it's a really exciting time to be
- 3:48Speaker 4: a video creator because there are a lot of new
- 3:50Speaker 4: ways now to create content which are really interesting. I see,
- 3:54Speaker 4: for example, our users, you know, experimenting with three hundred
- 3:58Speaker 4: and sixty videos and VR and it's really a whole
- 4:02Speaker 4: new way to look at how you create content and
- 4:05Speaker 4: how people engage with it. Also, if you look at
- 4:07Speaker 4: the platforms that people are using, you know, Facebook, Touchers,
- 4:10Speaker 4: so you get a lot of like live engagement. So
- 4:14Speaker 4: it's really interesting to see, you know, how creators evolve
- 4:18Speaker 4: how they create content in terms of how this landscape
- 4:21Speaker 4: is changing over time. So this is the one thing
- 4:26Speaker 4: that I find really interesting. And I also think that
- 4:29Speaker 4: there are a lot of tools in the last year,
- 4:32Speaker 4: in the last couple of years that are about giving
- 4:36Speaker 4: video creators, you know, the power to control their careers.
- 4:40Speaker 4: So up until now you're kind of like you had
- 4:43Speaker 4: a few video services and you kind of had to
- 4:45Speaker 4: play by their rules. And now that you have all
- 4:49Speaker 4: the power because everyone's chasing after all the great video
- 4:52Speaker 4: creators out there, you know, you can actually decide, you
- 4:55Speaker 4: can actually control the way that you're displayed and the
- 4:58Speaker 4: way that you're monetizing content. And you have so many
- 5:01Speaker 4: platforms to choose from, which is amazing. So I think
- 5:05Speaker 4: this is a really exciting time.
- 5:07Speaker 5: Yeah, and you mentioned something that I usually talk about
- 5:10Speaker 5: on the show, and that is you have to sort
- 5:12Speaker 5: of create your own sort of what I call a
- 5:13Speaker 5: stake in the ground. And basically what that is is,
- 5:17Speaker 5: you know, you have to get a website and that
- 5:19Speaker 5: is your stake so in the ground and you know
- 5:21Speaker 5: mine is Dave Bulls dot com. And basically that way,
- 5:25Speaker 5: when you're actually out there and you're you're making stuff,
- 5:27Speaker 5: you can upload it to a website. And this is
- 5:29Speaker 5: I think is key because now I don't know, it's
- 5:31Speaker 5: just maybe if it's just me, but whenever someone says
- 5:34Speaker 5: who you know, who's uh, does you know creative work
- 5:36Speaker 5: or artistic work, and they say they don't have a website,
- 5:39Speaker 5: I kind of go really, like, you know what I mean,
- 5:41Speaker 5: it's just if it seems like it should be second
- 5:43Speaker 5: nature at this point.
- 5:44Speaker 4: Completely, So I think that's provisional artist. You know, your
- 5:46Speaker 4: site is really your business card, and when people talk
- 5:49Speaker 4: to you, they'll just go to Google, they'll google your name,
- 5:52Speaker 4: and they're just they need to find like a professional,
- 5:54Speaker 4: beautiful online presence because it actually reflects on how they
- 5:57Speaker 4: look at your work. So you really want want to
- 6:00Speaker 4: have control on how this is displayed. And you know,
- 6:03Speaker 4: wis being wiks. We're really about like giving you all
- 6:06Speaker 4: the tools so you don't have to think about how
- 6:09Speaker 4: to create your website or how you know how to design,
- 6:12Speaker 4: and we're just giving you everything, giving you all the
- 6:14Speaker 4: tools that you need so you can just focus on
- 6:16Speaker 4: your contents and just put it, you know, in a
- 6:18Speaker 4: beautiful template and that could customize the entire thing and
- 6:21Speaker 4: make it your own. So when people go to your site,
- 6:24Speaker 4: you know, they really they see your site and your
- 6:26Speaker 4: logo and your brand and you know, it's all you
- 6:29Speaker 4: and it doesn't really matter where the content is coming from.
- 6:33Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
- 6:34Speaker 5: And especially now with video becoming what it is so
- 6:37Speaker 5: important in marketing and advertising. You know, I mean, you know,
- 6:40Speaker 5: for instance, you go onto a lot of these video
- 6:43Speaker 5: sites and you know, like you know, Hulu, Voodoos, you know, YouTube,
- 6:47Speaker 5: and you see what you see those ads before the video,
- 6:51Speaker 5: and there're short films.
- 6:53Speaker 3: They're no longer just like people you know, pitching you things.
- 6:55Speaker 5: They're a literal short film, you know, and and the
- 6:59Speaker 5: product is is what's being marketed, you know what I mean.
- 7:03Speaker 4: Definitely so click because you know, businesses started realizing that
- 7:06Speaker 4: video is really the most engaging way to connect people
- 7:09Speaker 4: to their band, to the brand, and to showcase their products.
- 7:12Speaker 4: So they're actually the ads as you said, they're becoming
- 7:16Speaker 4: like little films that are incredible. You know, you've seen this.
- 7:19Speaker 4: For example, I think the big fashion houses now they
- 7:22Speaker 4: released to YouTube such incredible clips and short films that
- 7:27Speaker 4: are all about you know, showcasing a certain dress that
- 7:29Speaker 4: they're selling or a certain collection. But it's like it's
- 7:32Speaker 4: like a film productions for sure. So this is totally
- 7:35Speaker 4: something that that is interesting.
- 7:39Speaker 5: So so Danielle, you've had a few filmmakers come to
- 7:42Speaker 5: you and come to WIGS in general, and you've sort
- 7:45Speaker 5: of helped them along, you know, I've i know, in
- 7:48Speaker 5: talking with Vivian Uh you know, she mentioned you have
- 7:51Speaker 5: two an evening with Bukolowski and Slate Goods and NYC
- 7:56Speaker 5: and you know some of these you know, different projects,
- 7:59Speaker 5: you know, when they come to you, what are some
- 8:02Speaker 5: of the things that that you sort of cover when
- 8:04Speaker 5: you're when you're talking to them. Is there any sort
- 8:06Speaker 5: of like do you have like a sort of like
- 8:07Speaker 5: a template a check sheet that you go through or
- 8:10Speaker 5: is it sort of you base it upon every different filmmaker,
- 8:13Speaker 5: h for when when they're gonna you know, obviously when
- 8:15Speaker 5: they're coming to you with with advice for video and
- 8:18Speaker 5: for websites, et cetera.
- 8:20Speaker 4: Yeah, So the thing about Slates and the two examples
- 8:24Speaker 4: that you gave Slate Goods and the and the Evening
- 8:28Speaker 4: with Bokovsky are two incredible, incredible examples of the platform.
- 8:32Speaker 4: The thing is, we didn't reach out to them until
- 8:34Speaker 4: after they actually created their website because the thing is
- 8:37Speaker 4: it's such a do it yourself platform. They didn't really
- 8:39Speaker 4: need any help from us or any guidance for us.
- 8:41Speaker 4: And they created two beautiful showcases. So Slate New York,
- 8:44Speaker 4: they are doing, they're selling snickers and what they're working
- 8:49Speaker 4: with nonprofits. So they use video on their website to
- 8:52Speaker 4: connect people to the nonprofits that they work with to
- 8:55Speaker 4: tell their stories, which really helps business. And you know,
- 8:58Speaker 4: it's not it's not like the typical video creator, but
- 9:00Speaker 4: it's someone that realized that video helps you sell.
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- 9:14Speaker 4: It helped connect people to your brand. And an evening
- 9:18Speaker 4: with Bokovsky just became one of my favorite stories because
- 9:21Speaker 4: the thing about that movie, it's a film that was
- 9:23Speaker 4: it's a documentary film that's actually premiered in Venice Festival
- 9:27Speaker 4: Film Festival last year and then slam Dance and several
- 9:30Speaker 4: other festivals. And the thing is that the director actually
- 9:35Speaker 4: found a bunch of tapes of his mom, who was
- 9:37Speaker 4: a journalist like I don't know how many decades ago,
- 9:41Speaker 4: interviewing Charles P. Bokovski, the writer, and it was so
- 9:44Speaker 4: good he decided to make a movie out of it,
- 9:47Speaker 4: and he created this amazing documentary and then he creates
- 9:50Speaker 4: a website for it. And on the website, you know,
- 9:52Speaker 4: you see that you can watch the trailer, you can
- 9:55Speaker 4: see all the festivals that it showkicked in, and then
- 9:57Speaker 4: you can, you know, contact him and you have to
- 9:59Speaker 4: press area and everything. So when you go there, you actually,
- 10:02Speaker 4: you know, you hear the entire story behind the film,
- 10:05Speaker 4: and it's fascinating so these are actually two great example
- 10:09Speaker 4: of you know, different uses for people who are either
- 10:13Speaker 4: filmmakers or not filmmakers. They don't realizing the power of video.
- 10:18Speaker 5: So then then it's sort of, you know, take that
- 10:20Speaker 5: a step further, Danielle. If you were to have somebody
- 10:23Speaker 5: sort of come to you then and a filmmaker, and
- 10:25Speaker 5: and he or she wanted to put their films, you know,
- 10:28Speaker 5: use Wix to build a site, put some videos up.
- 10:31Speaker 5: You know, you know what what advice would you give them?
- 10:34Speaker 5: You know, obviously because you mentioned you got to talk
- 10:36Speaker 5: to the two film filmmakers after their movies came out.
- 10:39Speaker 3: But you know, but if we if you had the opportunity.
- 10:41Speaker 5: To talk to people before those movies come out, you
- 10:44Speaker 5: know what was what would be some of the advice
- 10:46Speaker 5: that you would give them.
- 10:48Speaker 4: So I think the first thing I would say is,
- 10:50Speaker 4: you know, that's creating creating movies and videos these days,
- 10:53Speaker 4: it's not like a one way thing. So you have
- 10:55Speaker 4: to engage with your viewers, and you have to do
- 10:58Speaker 4: it even before you start filming. So you build your
- 11:01Speaker 4: own website, you create a teaser, you put whatever content
- 11:04Speaker 4: you have there. You start talking to your fans and
- 11:07Speaker 4: engageing with them. You share behind the scenes and updates
- 11:10Speaker 4: and teasers, and you really create a buzz about your
- 11:13Speaker 4: film before it's even out there. And then once it's
- 11:16Speaker 4: out there, so you revamp your website a little bit,
- 11:19Speaker 4: and you make sure that the movie is available, you know,
- 11:22Speaker 4: either for sale or even just the trailer if you
- 11:24Speaker 4: want to do the festival run. But just keep users,
- 11:28Speaker 4: like keep your viewers engaged all the time. This is
- 11:31Speaker 4: something that's really really critical in mis And then you know,
- 11:34Speaker 4: if you add to it like a directors statement and
- 11:37Speaker 4: interviews with your cast and exclusive content, the people really
- 11:40Speaker 4: have like they get a lot of your website, they
- 11:43Speaker 4: really connect to your vision. Then you understand why you
- 11:45Speaker 4: did what you did and what you're trying to say.
- 11:48Speaker 4: And I think this is you know, just watching a
- 11:50Speaker 4: video without all that context. You know, it's it's not
- 11:54Speaker 4: as powerful as it can be. And the fact that
- 11:57Speaker 4: you can engage with your fund defense and shut way,
- 11:59Speaker 4: the fact you can even you know, send them updates
- 12:01Speaker 4: and you know, even live stream from the set. You know,
- 12:04Speaker 4: use whatever you have at the moment. You don't have
- 12:07Speaker 4: to have the entire and film ready in order to
- 12:09Speaker 4: start working. You have to start working on it a
- 12:12Speaker 4: lot before it's done.
- 12:14Speaker 5: Yeah, And that's something I tell crowdfunders too as well,
- 12:17Speaker 5: is you know, you have to sort of build that
- 12:20Speaker 5: audience before you launch your crowdfunding campaign, because a lot
- 12:23Speaker 5: of times, you know, they'll launch and they they'll try
- 12:25Speaker 5: to find their crowd that way, but you know what
- 12:27Speaker 5: I mean, and then they sort of are trying to
- 12:29Speaker 5: they're sort of putting the car before the horse instead
- 12:31Speaker 5: of actually saying, let's build up an audience now, and
- 12:34Speaker 5: then when we launch this thing, we'll be able to
- 12:36Speaker 5: actually have an audience, and we'll actually have an audience
- 12:39Speaker 5: so we can actually you know, talk to once we
- 12:41Speaker 5: launch this crowdfunding campaign.
- 12:42Speaker 3: And it's the same way with the movie.
- 12:44Speaker 5: You know, you want to build up an audience, and
- 12:46Speaker 5: then by the time the movie comes out, you already
- 12:48Speaker 5: sort of you already have that audience who said, hey, Wilks,
- 12:51Speaker 5: we've seen the you know, we've seen the poster, we've
- 12:53Speaker 5: seen the trailer. Uh, and now we actually want to
- 12:56Speaker 5: see the whole movie.
- 12:58Speaker 4: Definitely with you on that. And I have to say that,
- 13:01Speaker 4: for example, having a website for crowdfunders is really like
- 13:05Speaker 4: it's even essential because it helps you appear a lot
- 13:08Speaker 4: more professional. Then you know you're you're not just another
- 13:11Speaker 4: Kickstarter project. Do you have your own, your own site
- 13:14Speaker 4: with all the information there, with everything that you need.
- 13:16Speaker 4: And we have actually had some users like that also
- 13:20Speaker 4: about creating a buzz before. So one example that I
- 13:23Speaker 4: can recall is the user that was he had a
- 13:27Speaker 4: horror comedy for Valentine's Day. So what he did was
- 13:30Speaker 4: it just he sent out just a lot of teasers
- 13:32Speaker 4: in social media and by the way, social media, I'm
- 13:34Speaker 4: sure you talk about it in your podcast all the
- 13:36Speaker 4: time how critical social media is for filmmakers. But he
- 13:40Speaker 4: had a lot of social media buzz before the movie
- 13:43Speaker 4: was out. But you know, it's going to be out
- 13:45Speaker 4: in Valentine Day, in Valentine's Day, it's going to be
- 13:48Speaker 4: you know, free to watch entire Valentine's Day, and then
- 13:51Speaker 4: it's going to be paid per view. So he created
- 13:53Speaker 4: a lot of buzz and he released it on Valentine's Day.
- 13:56Speaker 4: Then it just starts selling the next day, and all
- 13:58Speaker 4: that buzz really really helped. So you know, you got
- 14:02Speaker 4: he got depressed, and he got all the all about
- 14:05Speaker 4: in social media and whatever. So it's it's just really
- 14:07Speaker 4: a cool story.
- 14:09Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it just to uh to sort of
- 14:11Speaker 5: like piggyback on that story, Danielle. You know, one time
- 14:14Speaker 5: I actually made a short film. It was one of
- 14:17Speaker 5: those you know, uh weekend film competitions where you don't
- 14:20Speaker 5: have to make a film very very quickly. And what
- 14:23Speaker 5: I did was I actually used Wix to make a
- 14:26Speaker 5: I wanted to make just a simple one page website.
- 14:30Speaker 5: I didn't want anything fancy, and I was like, I
- 14:33Speaker 5: need something quick because I don't want to sit here
- 14:35Speaker 5: and you know, do all this other stuff. So I
- 14:37Speaker 5: actually used Wix and I just made this one sheet
- 14:40Speaker 5: of uh oh sorry, one page and you're just telling
- 14:42Speaker 5: people what the movie is and a couple of little
- 14:44Speaker 5: things here and there. And then the funniest thing was
- 14:46Speaker 5: I actually just put like at the bottom like everything
- 14:49Speaker 5: like here's where we're gonna be. And people actually responded
- 14:52Speaker 5: to that, just that one page or like cause we
- 14:54Speaker 5: and know what they said, Danielle. They said, hey, we
- 14:56Speaker 5: didn't have anywhere else to go. There was nowhere else
- 14:58Speaker 5: to click on. There wasn't like you know, all the
- 15:00Speaker 5: different you know tabs the top. They said, you know,
- 15:02Speaker 5: it was just very simple and self contained, and they said,
- 15:05Speaker 5: you know, we you know, it seemed to get the
- 15:07Speaker 5: point across a little better than if I had a
- 15:10Speaker 5: different bunch of tabs the top. And you know, I
- 15:12Speaker 5: just remember that, you know, I've always taken that with
- 15:16Speaker 5: me over the years, because whenever i'm you know, thinking
- 15:18Speaker 5: about making a different website or whatever, I'm always thinking,
- 15:20Speaker 5: you know, I shouldn't make it too busy, to give
- 15:24Speaker 5: people too many options, you know what I mean, Like,
- 15:25Speaker 5: I don't want to have a page where it's like
- 15:27Speaker 5: watch this and then this and then that, you know
- 15:29Speaker 5: what I mean. I want to make it so it's
- 15:31Speaker 5: like it's all sort of it's like a path, like
- 15:33Speaker 5: a linear path, if you know what I'm trying to say.
- 15:36Speaker 4: So I take them through the journey. It makes a
- 15:38Speaker 4: lot of sense, you know. You put what you pull.
- 15:41Speaker 4: You put for example, your most recent video on the top.
- 15:44Speaker 4: You make sure they watch a recent thing, and you
- 15:46Speaker 4: then then add some you know, either tabs or below
- 15:50Speaker 4: the fold or whatever with additional content for those who
- 15:53Speaker 4: are interested in more, and you can connect between them
- 15:56Speaker 4: and you can split in you know, categories in tag
- 15:58Speaker 4: and keep people moving throughout the journey of your creation.
- 16:02Speaker 4: It makes a lot of sense.
- 16:05Speaker 5: So you know, as we're sort of talk you know
- 16:07Speaker 5: about content creation, you know, it seems like everyone's getting
- 16:09Speaker 5: into that now, you know, I mean all these different
- 16:12Speaker 5: platforms or are you know, looking towards creating different content
- 16:17Speaker 5: and stuff like that. And you know, I wonder if
- 16:21Speaker 5: if it ever I mean, I know this is this
- 16:23Speaker 5: is obviously you this is kind of speculation, but I
- 16:26Speaker 5: was I would always wonder if different websites would be
- 16:31Speaker 5: entertaining that even more like websites we don't even think about,
- 16:33Speaker 5: you know what I mean, like because you know, if
- 16:35Speaker 5: you look, uh, the latest person I heard is getting
- 16:37Speaker 5: into into original content is Voodoo and that's owned by Walmart.
- 16:42Speaker 5: So you got Voodoo, you got Amazon, you got Netflix.
- 16:45Speaker 5: YouTube of course does their thing, and and you know,
- 16:48Speaker 5: as I look out into the landscape, I wonder, you
- 16:51Speaker 5: know what other websites and companies are gonna start creating
- 16:55Speaker 5: their own original content with shows and and some of which,
- 16:59Speaker 5: like we were discussed earlier, are going to just be
- 17:01Speaker 5: commercials for things that are coming out, you know what
- 17:03Speaker 5: I mean, Like you know, maybe you know, like different
- 17:06Speaker 5: companies can focus on you know, a new item or
- 17:08Speaker 5: coming out for instance, I knew a guy he actually
- 17:12Speaker 5: made a Star Wars short film to UH to promote
- 17:17Speaker 5: these lightsabers that they had made, and they actually got
- 17:20Speaker 5: like got the actual license to make these lightsabers, and
- 17:24Speaker 5: they actually the trailer was just these two guys battling
- 17:28Speaker 5: it out in a lightsaber fight and they and that's
- 17:30Speaker 5: how that was their whole marketing campaign.
- 17:34Speaker 4: Very cool one there. Yes, there are a lot of services,
- 17:40Speaker 4: and you know the thing is it's just when you
- 17:43Speaker 4: go to each of these services usually need to play
- 17:46Speaker 4: right their rules. But then if you put everything on
- 17:49Speaker 4: your own domain, so it's basically we have the ability
- 17:52Speaker 4: to showcase all the videos in one place. So for example,
- 17:56Speaker 4: what you're talking about right now, like you could create
- 17:58Speaker 4: some you know, specific the kind of content for Facebook,
- 18:01Speaker 4: and then you could do something for YouTube or for Femo.
- 18:05Speaker 4: And you know, each platform has their own you know,
- 18:07Speaker 4: their own style and their own their own you know
- 18:12Speaker 4: your intent of like why you're doing what you're doing.
- 18:14Speaker 4: You go to YouTube for the viral, and you go
- 18:16Speaker 4: to Vima because there's an amazing creators community, and then
- 18:19Speaker 4: you do like live and viral and say, you know,
- 18:22Speaker 4: things on Facebook and then when you have all that
- 18:26Speaker 4: content everywhere. It's kind of nice to have your own
- 18:28Speaker 4: demand way and you can showcase they're all in one place.
- 18:31Speaker 4: So this is one thing that we put a lot
- 18:33Speaker 4: of emphasis on. We know that creators just they have
- 18:36Speaker 4: their content running around everywhere and it's really hard to
- 18:40Speaker 4: keep track. And you know it looks different everywhere, and
- 18:43Speaker 4: you know, you keep using each of this platform for
- 18:46Speaker 4: their own like each and their own advantage. But then
- 18:48Speaker 4: you want on your own side to have the ability
- 18:50Speaker 4: to control everything and to just say, okay, this is
- 18:52Speaker 4: all the things I created throughout all the platforms and everything,
- 18:55Speaker 4: but this is mine. So this is one thing that
- 18:58Speaker 4: we put a lot of emphasis on, and you know,
- 19:00Speaker 4: make it an easy to grab your videos from everywhere
- 19:03Speaker 4: and just say okay, this is.
- 19:05Speaker 2: We'll be right back after a word from our sponsor
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- 19:14Speaker 4: This is all days work, you know, no matter where
- 19:16Speaker 4: it's found, this is all days work.
- 19:19Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's very true.
- 19:21Speaker 5: And you know there's there's speaking of you know, putting
- 19:23Speaker 5: on like everything on a portfolio. You know, I wanted
- 19:26Speaker 5: to ask, you know, what advice would you give about
- 19:28Speaker 5: SEO because you know, you know, Danielle, everyone talks now
- 19:31Speaker 5: about you know, if everyone does have a website or
- 19:33Speaker 5: if everyone does have a channel, you know, we you know,
- 19:35Speaker 5: how do you actually how do people actually find it
- 19:37Speaker 5: other than you know, word of mouth. So you know,
- 19:40Speaker 5: because obviously because you've seen all these different things, you know,
- 19:43Speaker 5: what advice would you have for somebody to to sort
- 19:46Speaker 5: of you know, make sure that their SEO, their search
- 19:49Speaker 5: engine optimization is actually locked down and and and so
- 19:51Speaker 5: that way people can actually if they are searching for
- 19:54Speaker 5: maybe something like you know, if they're searching for basketball
- 19:57Speaker 5: or ping pong tables or something like that, that they
- 19:59Speaker 5: can actually find your videos.
- 20:03Speaker 4: So actually, you know, it's something that we put a
- 20:06Speaker 4: lot of emphasis on. So we actually have tools that
- 20:09Speaker 4: automate this entire process for you and help you make this,
- 20:12Speaker 4: you know, the best you can find. Because, as we
- 20:15Speaker 4: said in the beginning, when people will want to look
- 20:17Speaker 4: things up, they'll just go to Google and then they
- 20:19Speaker 4: just really you know, they go there and they say, okay,
- 20:21Speaker 4: I'll probably like, you know, whatever comes up on the
- 20:23Speaker 4: first page, this is what it will probably they'll click.
- 20:27Speaker 4: I think the most important thing is just to make
- 20:29Speaker 4: sure that you have a lot of information on everything
- 20:33Speaker 4: that you add on your site, so you want to
- 20:35Speaker 4: you know, you want to fill in all the details
- 20:37Speaker 4: of everything that you do. For example, if you're a
- 20:38Speaker 4: filmmaker and you have your your crew and your cast
- 20:41Speaker 4: and the description and everything, you want everything written down
- 20:45Speaker 4: because basically Google just looks, you know, for good solid
- 20:49Speaker 4: content and if it's good solid content what you have
- 20:51Speaker 4: there and you know the favorite video, so that's even better,
- 20:55Speaker 4: So you should be fine. And also you know, there
- 20:58Speaker 4: are a lot of tools to optimz at your SEO,
- 21:00Speaker 4: which I think everyone should definitely use because this is
- 21:03Speaker 4: something critical these days.
- 21:06Speaker 5: Yeah, it's uh, you know, as you're talking about on
- 21:08Speaker 5: this podcast, you know, it's a war of eyeballs and
- 21:11Speaker 5: ears now because you know everyone, you know, the the
- 21:14Speaker 5: playing field is even out a lot. You know, obviously,
- 21:17Speaker 5: you know, hard work and talent still count. But you know,
- 21:20Speaker 5: if everyone has a camera, you know you have to
- 21:22Speaker 5: be you have to especially be able to stand out
- 21:24Speaker 5: from the pack definitely. So you know, as we sort
- 21:28Speaker 5: of you know, uh go on with this conversation, Uh, Danielle,
- 21:31Speaker 5: I wanted to ask, you know, when you're putting together
- 21:34Speaker 5: a website, you know, what what are some of the
- 21:36Speaker 5: things that you you usually tell people to to to
- 21:39Speaker 5: make sure you focus on I mean, is there any
- 21:41Speaker 5: anything you know, uh, you know beyond you know, obviously
- 21:43Speaker 5: since we're talking a lot about video, is there anything
- 21:45Speaker 5: sort of beyond video that you make that you tell filmmakers?
- 21:49Speaker 3: You know, you make sure to put.
- 21:51Speaker 5: This on your site so it looks you know, it
- 21:52Speaker 5: looks and feels and and it is a complete site.
- 21:56Speaker 4: Yeah. So for filmmakers, what I would say, you know,
- 22:00Speaker 4: having all your content there with all you know, the
- 22:03Speaker 4: additional in front of everything is connect all the social
- 22:05Speaker 4: channels that you have. You're probably using you know, Facebook, Snapchat, whatever,
- 22:10Speaker 4: you want to use them all. You want to show
- 22:11Speaker 4: all the buzz around your films and all the activity
- 22:14Speaker 4: around it. You want to share updates and behind the
- 22:17Speaker 4: scenes and stuff. I probably do this in like a
- 22:19Speaker 4: production blog, which could be great for filmmakers, you know,
- 22:22Speaker 4: to get people engaged with the movie. And then always
- 22:25Speaker 4: have a press section, you know, make it easy. You
- 22:28Speaker 4: want to get coverage for your film, even if it's
- 22:30Speaker 4: you know, not yet like not yet in production, but
- 22:32Speaker 4: you want to get some coverage. You want to you
- 22:34Speaker 4: want to get somebody. Make it really easier for media
- 22:36Speaker 4: to find what they're looking for. So I have like
- 22:39Speaker 4: a proper press section with all the media they need
- 22:41Speaker 4: with your context in so make it easy for them
- 22:44Speaker 4: to to help you, to help you get you know,
- 22:47Speaker 4: the coverage you want, symbols for screenings. You know, there
- 22:51Speaker 4: are so many apps and stuff you're just if you're
- 22:53Speaker 4: already out there, just you know, have all your laurels
- 22:56Speaker 4: out and have all your screening dates and everything so
- 22:59Speaker 4: people know where find you. And so I think that's
- 23:03Speaker 4: that's the most important thing. These are the most things.
- 23:08Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I wanted to ask too, Danielle.
- 23:10Speaker 5: You know, I don't know if the answer this question,
- 23:12Speaker 5: so I figured I ask you, are forums still a thing?
- 23:16Speaker 5: If there are forums like you know, back back in
- 23:18Speaker 5: the day, you know where people who actually have you know,
- 23:21Speaker 5: uh you know, where they can post different you know things.
- 23:23Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I don't even know if that's
- 23:25Speaker 5: a thing anymore, but I mean, is it? I mean,
- 23:28Speaker 5: uh do do you do? You know, have you seen
- 23:30Speaker 5: filmmakers or even other users actually you know, try to
- 23:33Speaker 5: make try to put forums into the website and maybe
- 23:35Speaker 5: have any any type of sort of engagement with it.
- 23:39Speaker 4: So, yes, definitely, the thing about forums. Is that people
- 23:43Speaker 4: a lot of times, you know, forums it's just another
- 23:45Speaker 4: way to create a community around something. And if you're
- 23:48Speaker 4: interesting enough, or you're doing something that's interesting to users enough,
- 23:51Speaker 4: they'll come and they'll read, and they'll engage and they'll
- 23:53Speaker 4: also want to comment, which is you know, makes perfect sense.
- 23:57Speaker 4: So I do think forums are definitely something you should
- 24:00Speaker 4: have if you want ongoing engagement, but it needs to
- 24:04Speaker 4: be interesting enough. So I would probably create a form
- 24:07Speaker 4: around something very specific. For example, you're Star Wars example,
- 24:11Speaker 4: So Star Wars fans are like hysterical, okay, And if
- 24:14Speaker 4: you have a form, it's all about you know, Star
- 24:16Speaker 4: Wars stands and creating media around it and things that
- 24:20Speaker 4: would totally engage you know, viewers coming to your side,
- 24:23Speaker 4: help them stay longer, and help get them really connected
- 24:26Speaker 4: to what you do. So it's just a strong way
- 24:30Speaker 4: to create a community, okay.
- 24:33Speaker 5: You know, And that's a good point because I see,
- 24:36Speaker 5: you know, I haven't been on forms in a while,
- 24:38Speaker 5: and I've always wondered if that that was still you know,
- 24:40Speaker 5: a viable option because again, you know, like we were
- 24:43Speaker 5: just saying, there's so many options out there now, and
- 24:46Speaker 5: I you know, it's you know, you have so many
- 24:48Speaker 5: different things to choose from me, it's hard to sometimes
- 24:50Speaker 5: you know, wonder, you know what I mean, what if
- 24:53Speaker 5: that tool that you you've used before is ever is
- 24:56Speaker 5: still going to be you know, a good option, if
- 24:58Speaker 5: you know what I'm trying to say. So it's you know,
- 25:00Speaker 5: but you know, as you sort of bring this back
- 25:01Speaker 5: to video, uh, you know, even with video, you know
- 25:05Speaker 5: some of the things, you know, the tools that that
- 25:07Speaker 5: I've used in the past, you know, you can use
- 25:09Speaker 5: some of them still and other ones.
- 25:11Speaker 3: It's it's just like you can't do it anymore.
- 25:13Speaker 5: For instance, I used to have I had a mini
- 25:16Speaker 5: DV cam that you know, if I use it now,
- 25:19Speaker 5: I feel like I'm kind of you know, shooting myself
- 25:21Speaker 5: in the foot because I'm giving myself an extra step
- 25:23Speaker 5: because you have to take the DV the DV tape
- 25:26Speaker 5: out of the camera. You know, you have to you know,
- 25:28Speaker 5: digitize the footage so you can can so you can
- 25:30Speaker 5: start editing it in something like premiere or ADVID, you know,
- 25:33Speaker 5: and it's just you start to say, well, wait a minute,
- 25:36Speaker 5: I want to just to shoot digital.
- 25:38Speaker 3: To begin with and eliminate this whole process.
- 25:40Speaker 5: You know, you you know what I mean, It's just
- 25:43Speaker 5: it's just how things change anymore so rapidly.
- 25:45Speaker 3: Uh, you know, in the world we live in now.
- 25:48Speaker 4: Definitely.
- 25:52Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Danielle, I mean to rupt. I'm sorry.
- 25:55Speaker 4: I'm with it.
- 25:57Speaker 5: Awesome, so, uh, you know, and that's I also wanted
- 26:00Speaker 5: to ask too, is you know, you know, where do
- 26:03Speaker 5: you see you know, wis going in the next couple
- 26:06Speaker 5: of years in terms of you know, video and everything
- 26:08Speaker 5: out and everything like that, and uh, you know, with
- 26:11Speaker 5: everything sort of it. You know, we talked about all
- 26:12Speaker 5: different things. You know, is there any place that you
- 26:15Speaker 5: would you can see wis going?
- 26:20Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you the thing. We're like, we're evolved.
- 26:25Speaker 4: We're here to empower video graadors. Okay, so as this
- 26:27Speaker 4: industry evolved and as the technology has changed, so we're
- 26:31Speaker 4: going to evolve with that, and we want to provide
- 26:36Speaker 4: you know, easy access to all the tools you're already using.
- 26:39Speaker 4: We want to help you, as we said, build a
- 26:41Speaker 4: community around your content. So we're always going to find
- 26:44Speaker 4: the most the best and most innovative ways to do that.
- 26:48Speaker 4: And I think that this landscape you know, currently we're
- 26:52Speaker 4: talking about you know, showcasing and distributing your content, which
- 26:56Speaker 4: is something that has changed dramatically in the last couple
- 26:58Speaker 4: of years. And if you look now then you'll see that,
- 27:01Speaker 4: for example, on demand, which is something that you know,
- 27:04Speaker 4: talk to me, like ten years ago, I wouldn't believe
- 27:06Speaker 4: that someone would pay for video on demand, And today
- 27:09Speaker 4: it's like it's the most obvious thing that you can,
- 27:11Speaker 4: you know, sell your content directly to fans. You can
- 27:14Speaker 4: sell you know, your you can sell your skills, you
- 27:17Speaker 4: can sell materials, you can do so many things with it.
- 27:19Speaker 4: So this is something that we could never imagine. And
- 27:22Speaker 4: now this is so common and this landscape keeps changing,
- 27:26Speaker 4: so we're just gonna we just plan to change with it.
- 27:30Speaker 5: Yeah, And like we were just saying, you know, everything
- 27:34Speaker 5: changes so rapidly now and you have to sort of
- 27:37Speaker 5: you know, be be be ahead of the curve. And
- 27:40Speaker 5: and you know, again that's where I go back to
- 27:42Speaker 5: with you know, content creation and you know, being able
- 27:45Speaker 5: to be able to get your stuff out there to
- 27:47Speaker 5: your fans directly, because you know, that's what you know
- 27:49Speaker 5: has happened with technology. You know, over the past even
- 27:52Speaker 5: let's just say ten years, you know, you've cut out
- 27:55Speaker 5: the whole middleman, and now you're selling directly to your fans.
- 27:58Speaker 5: You can make a whole you know, a website and
- 28:00Speaker 5: you can and talk directly to people, and once people
- 28:03Speaker 5: find your website, you can start you know, engaging with
- 28:05Speaker 5: them and uh, you know, hopefully.
- 28:07Speaker 3: Make a fan for life.
- 28:08Speaker 5: And then you know that that's something you know, I
- 28:10Speaker 5: always wonder where the next iteration is going to be,
- 28:13Speaker 5: but but you know that That's what I mean by
- 28:15Speaker 5: you know, how everything has changed is you know, maybe
- 28:19Speaker 5: it'll be completely different than what we think it'll be,
- 28:21Speaker 5: or maybe it'll you know versus you know, changing increments
- 28:24Speaker 5: if you know what if you know what I mean.
- 28:26Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I'm pretty sure. You know, I'm pretty
- 28:31Speaker 4: sure that things are going to change on like different
- 28:35Speaker 4: like levels. So the technology is changing dramatically all the time,
- 28:39Speaker 4: and then the engagement levels that you have and are
- 28:42Speaker 4: changing all the time. So it also it also affects
- 28:46Speaker 4: content that you're creating. So suddenly, you know, you create
- 28:49Speaker 4: like a live stream and you talk to people directly,
- 28:51Speaker 4: or you create like a three sixteen movie and you
- 28:54Speaker 4: make you make your viewers you know, they can select
- 28:57Speaker 4: their next scene or where they're going with it. So
- 29:00Speaker 4: there are so many things that are changing at once.
- 29:04Speaker 2: We'll be right back after a word from our sponsor,
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- 29:12Speaker 4: It's going to be very interesting to see where creators
- 29:15Speaker 4: take this because they think it's really the power is
- 29:17Speaker 4: really in the creator's hand on how they're going to
- 29:20Speaker 4: take this amazing you know, these amazing technologies and these
- 29:23Speaker 4: amazing opportunities and create like groundbreaking experiences. It's all about
- 29:29Speaker 4: like creating an experience, not just like you now once
- 29:32Speaker 4: you know, many years ago you would sit in the
- 29:34Speaker 4: cinema and just watch a film and just go out,
- 29:36Speaker 4: and now it's like a whole experience experience you're getting
- 29:39Speaker 4: into and everything is getting a lot more interactive. So
- 29:41Speaker 4: as time goes, it's going to be really interesting to
- 29:44Speaker 4: see what creators do with it. And I think the
- 29:46Speaker 4: data is like the theilby wants to decide where this
- 29:48Speaker 4: is going. You can have the most amazing technology out there,
- 29:52Speaker 4: but if you don't get creators to create amazing things
- 29:55Speaker 4: with it, amazing experiences with it there, it's not going
- 29:58Speaker 4: to work.
- 30:00Speaker 5: That is a fantastic point, Danielle. That is absolutely fantastic.
- 30:03Speaker 4: Uh.
- 30:04Speaker 5: You know, Danielle, we've been talking for about thirty minutes
- 30:07Speaker 5: give or take, you know, just in closing, is there
- 30:10Speaker 5: anything that we haven't got a chance to discuss or
- 30:12Speaker 5: that you want to discuss now, or maybe even something
- 30:15Speaker 5: you wanted to sort of say to put a period
- 30:16Speaker 5: in this whole conversation.
- 30:19Speaker 4: And let's listen, like if we're talking about like Wix
- 30:27Speaker 4: in general or Wix Video specifically. So the thing to
- 30:31Speaker 4: remember is that we always have creators in mind. So
- 30:35Speaker 4: it's always about you know, having people, giving people the
- 30:38Speaker 4: ability to to have complete control over harder content is displayed.
- 30:44Speaker 4: Like you work so hard, you know, on your latest
- 30:46Speaker 4: short film or whatever. You should be the one to
- 30:49Speaker 4: decide how it's displayed, where it's displayed, how it is monetized.
- 30:53Speaker 4: You should be able to sell a directly if you
- 30:55Speaker 4: want and not rely on any other service. Should be
- 30:58Speaker 4: able to do it on your own domain. Like it's
- 31:00Speaker 4: all about, you know, providing control and given the power back.
- 31:05Speaker 4: I think, and this is something that we're doing. So
- 31:08Speaker 4: we're fairly news service at the moment, and we keep
- 31:11Speaker 4: evolving this and improving this over time, and I think
- 31:15Speaker 4: we have amazing stings you know coming soon that are
- 31:18Speaker 4: not even able to discuss. But I'm sure you will
- 31:21Speaker 4: full up after this, and you know, I'm sure will
- 31:24Speaker 4: keep talking and it's been a pleasure and.
- 31:28Speaker 5: You know, and obviously we're definitely gonna keep talking, Danielle,
- 31:31Speaker 5: and I just wanted to say I'm sorry. One last
- 31:33Speaker 5: question was where can people find you out online?
- 31:36Speaker 4: So you can find us at a wooks dot com.
- 31:39Speaker 4: Basically you have a whole section for video creators with
- 31:42Speaker 4: a lot of beautiful, stunning film templates and templates for
- 31:46Speaker 4: video creators, and then you have the with video apps
- 31:49Speaker 4: and within the side where you can have all the
- 31:51Speaker 4: amazing features we talked about.
- 31:55Speaker 5: And do you have any like personal Twitter or anything
- 31:57Speaker 5: you want to give out.
- 31:58Speaker 4: Danielle, not really. I'm a LinkedIn kind of girl.
- 32:03Speaker 5: By the way, I shot you a LinkedIn from request.
- 32:07Speaker 5: I'm great, so feel free to decline that at any time. No,
- 32:12Speaker 5: I'm just kidding around, but you know, I'm really good.
- 32:15Speaker 5: I just I made sure to I looked. I was
- 32:19Speaker 5: looking for if you had any social media like at
- 32:21Speaker 5: Twitter or anything, and LinkedIn came up and I was like, oh,
- 32:24Speaker 5: there she is. I I'll send her a connection request.
- 32:28Speaker 4: But I'm about giving other people the stage. You know,
- 32:31Speaker 4: I'm just providing the to giving other people the stage.
- 32:35Speaker 4: I love that stage.
- 32:37Speaker 3: Well, Danielle, I want to say thank you so much,
- 32:40Speaker 3: you know, for coming on.
- 32:42Speaker 4: Thank you for having me Dave, You're very welcome.
- 32:45Speaker 3: Take care, Danielle bye.
- 32:49Speaker 2: I want to thank Dave so much for doing such
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